Call for Participation

The 13th Annual Graph Drawing Contest shall be held in conjunction with the
14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing. Except for the
challenge competition, which takes place during the conference, all submissions
are due by September 15, 2006. The anticipated funding for the contest is €
1,000.

Contest Overview

This year, the contest has five graph categories. The following links provide
details and data for each category.

The free-style competition is an opportunity for participants to present
their best graph visualizations. All types of graph drawings can be submitted to
this contest, and judging will be based on artistic merit and relevance to the
graph drawing community.

For this category, we simply provide data representing all the games played
throughout the history of the FIFA World Cup Finals. The task is to visualize
the tournaments played over the years as an evolving graph.

The challenge will be held during the conference in a format similar to a
typical programming contest, where teams are presented with a collection of
challenge-graphs and have approximately one hour to submit their highest scoring
drawings. This year the challenge shall focus on minimizing the area of
straight-line grid drawings of planar graphs.

Submissions

Submissions for all categories, except for the Challenge, must be received by
midnight September 15 and should include the following information:

names and email addresses of the contributors,

a picture (or movie) illustrating the graph (graphs), and

a brief description of the graph, how it was generated, and its relevance to
the problem or the graph drawing community.

Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. However, if your drawing
requires special printing because of size, resolution, or color constraints, you
are encouraged to submit via hard-copy. Acceptable electronic formats include
PDF and PostScript for static images. For dynamic graphs or animations, please
use mpg or avi files. Movies should be made using standard codecs.